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...chief recreation, as usual, was to drive his hand-control open Ford (license plates, GEORGIA FDR) over the bumpy roads in a smoke screen of dust. His evenings he spent reading (presumably detective stories). Quickly he shushed reporters looking for significance in Prime Minister Mackenzie King's visit-said the talks involved no policy matters. By the weekend the nervous shakiness was out of his hands, and his relaxed fingers no longer tapped on the chair arm. He rose at 10 a.m., worked little, got his rest-but in Europe was the war; in Washington were the cables...
...Mice and Men" is a Zolaesque ghost of naturalism came back to haunt the screen of the U. T. John Steinbeck's picture of ranch hands struggling against an unnamed force that drives them to destruction is a company little exercise that might have been carved out of the space, gaunt stories of Stephen Crane, or the vast welter of Frank Norris's novels. It has Crane's economy and concentrated power, combined with Norris's careful documentation of detail. It is this detail that makes the film a masterpiece--the whirring belts of farm machinery, dogs hanging around...
...Gesell believes that children are not only charming but startling, is firmly convinced that it is silly to try to measure them by intelligence tests. He has worked out an elaborate method of spying on them from behind a one-way-vision screen. In The First Five Years of Life he describes: 1) how a normal child grows; 2) how one normal child differs from another. Normal behavior at different ages...
Among some off-color, phony sets of the South American mountains nestles the "Amazing Stories" laboratory of the diabolical Dr. Thorkel, replete with radium concentrators, twisting coils, and condensing machines. The picture brings no established stars to the screen nor does it add any new ones to the Hollywood firmament...
...does not like publicity though, especially of the "yellow journalism" variety. She reports that all sorts of stories have been started about her and her family, varying from surnames of "publicity hunters" to a recent rumor that Mrs. Kay is trying to get her well-built, brunette daughter a screen contract, which the latter calls just "silly." Letters from all parts of the country flock in to this young lady, approving or disapproving of her mother's action, or just plain asking for a date. But Gloria and her family remain steadfast in their opinions, and are thankful that "that...